Jay Sparks
Jay Sparks
draw fact five four games good love period proven quite team win
I do feel like we got a good draw on the bracket, but it doesn't take away the fact that you still have to win four games in five days. Our team hasn't proven that they can play quite that consistently for that period of time. Of course, I'd love to see it.
control destroyed lost pitch pleased position shot
The play was destroyed when Erica lost control of the ball, and she had to pitch it back. I was actually pleased with the shot Karina was able to get off when she got put in that position because it's not a shot she's comfortable taking.
conference days game people played players playing positive ready typical
This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.
bounce nice side wrong
We've been on the wrong side of those a lot this year. It's nice to see we got one to bounce our way one time.
against enemy ourselves playing rust weeks worst
We will have had 2 1/2 weeks off, so we're playing more against ourselves than the other team. We're going to be our own worst enemy because of the rust that we'll have.
bit knowledge lose nice nobody progress sort starting
I think we've made nice progress, but it's going to be interesting to see if we lose any of the progress that we've made because of the long layoff. Nobody really knows. ... It's sort of like starting over. They just start over with a little bit more knowledge of what's going on.
confidence contribute dynamic game hope individual maybe team
I think what we hope what we're going to get from that game is individual confidence for our players, where they think they can contribute to our success. I think that right there is maybe the most important dynamic for our team at this point.
conference games reason rust
That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.
aspect bad focus fully human human-nature nature relaxation says
Human nature says we can relax, that they aren't fully loaded. That relaxation is not a bad thing, but it kind of deteriorates the focus aspect of the game.
answer broke games half minus second seven shot win
We broke down all our games and, minus two of them, we had a shot to win seven of them. This would be eight. I thought we had a shot to win, but in the second half we'd get one-shot-and-out and we couldn't answer them.
aggressive good job throw trying
We were trying to take it right to them, but we didn't do a very good job of that. We could throw it in there, but we didn't do a very good job of being aggressive once we got there.
ability amount games
We don't have the ability to concentrate for any amount of time. When you don't have that, you have games like we had tonight. If you look back over the season, we've had a lot of lulls like that.
add bottom girls high left lesson line open proving shoot tough
When you add it all up, we just didn't shoot a high percentage. That's the bottom line of this game. This is a tough lesson for us to learn, but our girls are being left open for a reason. They're not proving they can make shots.
gonna lose round seed
Clayton State's the No. 1 seed in the region. They could lose in the first round and know that they're gonna keep playing. We can't do that.